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HAY PRESS.

'No. 377,458. Patented Feb; 7, 1888.

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UNITED, STATES;

PATENT Y OFFICE DAVID JACOB HYNEMAN'AND IRVEN WASHINGTON HYNEMAN, or CORINTH, 7 MISSISSIPPI.

HAY-PRESS.)

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 377,458, dated February 7, 1888.- I

Application filed October 25, 1887. Serial No. 253,343. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

dents of Corinth, in the county of Alcorn and State of Mississippi, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hay-Presses; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such aswill enable others skilled in the art to WhlCh 1t pertains to make and use the same.

Our Invention relates, to improvements in portable hay-presses of the class in which the press proper is mounted on wheels. and is adapted to be moved from place to place in a field and operated at any point or any number of points therein.

'ljhe invention is fully described and explalned in this specification, and shown in.the

accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a press of our Improved construction, a number of the parts of the frame being broken away to show the internal construction. Fig. 2 is a top plan of the machine; and Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the rear portionof the wheeled support of the press, together with the press proper, the latter being in the vertical position in which it is placed for filling.

In the views, A is a wagon bed or frame, of,

anyknown or desired construction, supported I by front and rear wheels, A A, mounted on suitable axles. A stationary frame or platform, B, 1s rigidly mounted on the front end of'the wagon-bed, and is provided at its rear end with a vertical platen or press-bed, B, in whose rear faceare formed horizontalgrooves or gains 1) for the insertion of binding-wires. A vertical capstan or Windlass, O, is journaled in suitable bearings in, the front end of the Stationary frame B, and is provided with an operating sweep or lever, O, or any other means forits convenient rotation.

On the rear portion of the wagon-bed is a press-chamber, D, provided with a horizontal shaft, (2, which is journaled in suitable bearings fastened to the wagon-bed immediately over the rear axles, and to the front end of the press-chamber D, and between it and the platen B, is fastened, by means of hinges d,

a cap or hood, D,' which forms a continuation of the press-chamber, and is provided withlatches I pivoted to its opposite vertical faces l Be It known that we, DAVID J AOOB HYNE- and adapted to engage catches L'in the wagon- MAN and IRVEN WASHINGTON HYNEMAN, resibed, the object of these latches and the catches with which they engage being to fasten the hood.

to the wagon-bed or to release it when desired. The press chamber D is provided wi'th'a followboard, E, lying and adapted to slide freely I within it, and formed in its front face with horizontal grooves or gains 6, corresponding'in presschamber. Arope,F,'passesthrough the.

capstan O, and thence aboutpnlleys G, mounted on pivots which are fastened to suitable sup-v ports, 9, and is carried thence. to the rear of the press-chamber, where its ends are looped aboutthe arms or lugs e, as illustrated in Fig. 1.

The rope may be securely fastened at the point where it passesthrough the capstan 0;

but we'prefer to have it slip loosely through the holein the capstan, in order that when the capstan is rotated the resistance may equalize the length of the parts of the rope lying be-.

tween the capstan and the respective arms 6.

It is evident that if in any manner the presschamber be filled with hay or other substance susceptible of compression and the ends of the rope F be looped about the arms 6 of the follow-board E, the rotation of the capstan will wind the rope about it and draw the follow,- board forward in the chamber,thns compressing the hay or other material therein;

In operation the entire machine is movable from place to place, and when so in motion its I trated in Fig. 1, the press-chamber being horizontal and the hood D being swung downward parts arelpreferably in the/positions illusupon the wagon-bedand Secured by means of V 7 the latches Land catches L.v When themaehine reaches the place at which it is desired to bale hay orother material the latches L are released from the corresponding-catches and the entire press and hood are swung into the vertical position indicated in full lines in Fig. 3, the hood being swungback, if desired, I I00 to the position illustrated in dotted lines in said figure, and thefollow-board E being at the'rear or bottom end of the press-chamber.

F position to the similar grooves, 12, in the platen In this position the press-chamber may be readily filled with hay, cotton, or other compressible material, and when so filled the rear end of the pressehamber is swung upward until the chamber and its hood reach the position shown in full lines in Fig. 1, when the hood is fastened down by means of the latches L. The follow-board is now drawn forward by means of the rotation of the windlass or capstan O and the winding of the rope'about it until the lugs or ears 0 reach the front ends of the longitudinal slots in the sides of the press-chamber, the follow-board then being in the position indicated at E, Fig. 1, and the compressed material being between the follow-board and the platen B. The latches L are then released from the catches L and the hood D is swung upward to the position indicated in dotted linesin Fig. 'l,when the compressed material between the follow-board and theplaten is readily accessible. Binding-wires are then inserted in the grooves or gains in the platen and follow-board and are fastened about the bale of "compressed material,which may then be readily released from its position, thus preparing the machine for a second operation.

In order that thehood D may swing upward when desired in the manner described, the side pieces, D, of the hood are placed in vertical planes wholly outside of the extreme limits of the platen B, and slots or recesses B" are formed in the front edge of the stationary platform B, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2, for the purpose of allowing the free passage of the lower front corner of each of the side boards, D, of the hood.

Having now described and explained our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. In apress of the class described, the combination,with a suitable bed and its supporting-wheels, of a stationary frame or platform mounted on the front end of said bed, a windlass or capstan journaled therein and provided with means for its rotation, a press-chamber supported by a transverse pivot journaled in suitable bearings at the rear end of the wagonbed, and a swinging hood hinged to the front end of the press-chamber and forming a continuation thereof, and lying between it and the rear face of said stationary platform, substan tially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination,with the bed A and its supporting-wheels A A, of the stationary platform B, mounted on the front end of said bed, the Windlass O, journaled in said stationary platform, the press-chamber D, mounted on a horizontal shaft journaled in bearings'on the rear end of the bed, and the hood I), hinged to the front end of the press-chamber and provided with means for looking it to the bed or an attachment thereof, substantially as shown and described, the rear edge of the stationary platform being formed with slots B, permitting the upward swing of the hood, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination, with the wagon-bed A and its supporting-wheels A A, of the platform B, having at its rear end the platen B, formed with grooves I), the press-chamber D, pivotaliy mounted on the rear end of the bed, the follow-board E, lying within the presschamber and-having groovescinits front face,

the hood D, hinged to the press-chamber and lying between it and the platen B, and means, substantially asshown and described, for drawing the follow'board forward in the presschamber, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof we have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

DAVID JACOB IIYNEMAN. IRVEN WASHINGTON HYNEMAN.

Witnesses:

GEO. Cox, J. O. IJAMS. 

